Common food you don't like

[welby]

Anything from the sea, plus Acorn squash. Beyond that, I'll eat it.

[wring]

Ok, forgot a few more, obviously - liver and brussell sprouts.

[Muskrat Love]

I do not like strawberries or strawberry flavor in anything.

[jdr]

Originally Posted by Sleeps With Butterflies

Yes! The only beans I like are green beans.

Of course, I haven't tried any other beans since I was about 10 so my tastes may have changed. I'm afraid to try any because of the texture.

Oh, I forgot about green beans. You welcome to my share.

Add water chestnuts to my list too.

[Ramsey]

Jell-O, processed meats of any kind, most fish, and eggs unless they are incorporated into a dish in such a way that I can't see, feel or smell them: cake, yea; quiche, nay.

[takowasakun]

I don't drink soda anymore either, freudian slip, it's just too sweet for me these days. Along those same lines, I don't like candy. Some chocolates (particularly dark chocolates or milk chocolates with a high cocoa content) are okay, but things like hard candies that are 90% or more high fructose corn syrup are out of the question for me.

Quail's eggs have never really been a big hit with me, but I'll eat them. They show up in a lot of the soups served with lunch at my school, so I've grown to tolerate them. I still think they taste like tiny chicken eggs that have gone off, though.

Taro root is palatable in certain preparations, but Japanese mountain yams (nagaimo/yamaimo) make me gag whenever I try to eat them, eating them is like slurping down a bowl full of snot . Also, I've never cared for okra. Slimy little nuggets of nearly no flavor whatsoever. Maybe my tastebuds are just blind to them, but what little flavor I can detect beyond all that mucilage is mediocre at its best. While we're on the topic of mucliaginous foods, while I have developed a tolerance for natto, I still will choose damn near anything over it given the choice.

Apart from those, though, I'll eat damn near anything.

[eleanorigby]

Originally Posted by Euryphaessa

Can't stand peanut butter.

My 2 boys can't stand peanut butter, either. Go figure.

I also hate okra- I try very hard to forget it's in the world, but every now and then someone reminds me.

With me, lots of dislikes are about texture, not the flavor.

[cowgirl]

Originally Posted by Jeff

Sliced bread. I have an irrational aversion to it after years of horrible bagged lunches in school.

That's not irrational at all.

[Roo]

Hey, this thread makes me happy. I used to think I was a picky eater. But I've probably eaten everything in the thread except for lutefisk and chicken liver, and didn't mind it.

Now I'm a vegan, so the meat and dairy is out, but not because I don't necessarily like the taste.

[Rat Diva]

anything licorice flavored.

cilantro.

any kind of shellfish. I ain't gonna eat something that looks like a giant boiled cockroach or a giant boiled loogie. not even batter fried.

sweetened coffee/ tea. I drink black coffee and tea because I like bitter flavors, and the bottled kinds (or the iced tea and coffee drinks from fast food places etc) are so oversweetened I can't even gag them down.

[Ferret Herder]

Originally Posted by seodoa

Taro root is palatable in certain preparations, but Japanese mountain yams (nagaimo/yamaimo) make me gag whenever I try to eat them, eating them is like slurping down a bowl full of snot

Do you like them prepared as soba? I love yam/buckwheat soba noodles; obviously the texture is much different from the normal mountain yam, it seems.

[Jeff]

Originally Posted by Sleeps With Butterflies

Of course, I haven't tried any other beans since I was about 10 so my tastes may have changed. I'm afraid to try any because of the texture.

That's the same reason I avoid beans. I remember liking the taste of baked beans (and they smell so damned good), but the memory of the texture keeps me away.

Originally Posted by cowgirl

That's not irrational at all.

Considering that I love carbs so much, and there's literally nothing about a slice of white bread that I inherently dislike, the only reasonable explanation is that I'm batshit crazy about all this repressed childhood nonsense.

[takowasakun]

Originally Posted by Ferret Herder

Do you like them prepared as soba? I love yam/buckwheat soba noodles; obviously the texture is much different from the normal mountain yam, it seems.

Potato-based noodles are made with a similar potato, yamanoimo or, sometimes, satsumaimo (Japanese sweet potato). When yamanoimo are used in noodles, they lose much of the mucliaginous character and are just fine. I prefer buckwheat soba or satsumaimo-based soba over the yamanoimo stuff, but I still like the yamanoimo soba just fine.

It's when it is in its common preparation as tororo that I hate it.

[Veb]

Originally Posted by seodoa

It's when it is in its common preparation as tororo that I hate it.

That...looks like a bowl of phlegm.

As unpicky as I am, the slightly sticky stuff in cooked oatmeal sometimes gives me a moment's pause. I even love okra.

But tororo looks like a record-setter for culinary slime.

[Roo]

Originally Posted by TVeblen

But tororo looks like a record-setter for culinary slime.

Not really. Natto has the addition of being sticky to the point of being stringy and smells like rotten eggs, mostly because it is rotten.

[takowasakun]

Natto cannot hold a candle to tororo in the slime department. Natto is stringy, yes, but it doesn't have the same phlegm like characteristic as tororo. Natto does beat it in terms of smell, though. Woof.

Have you ever had a really huge was of phleghm that hangs down the back of your throat from your sinus cavity? The kind that if you tried hard enough (and were so disgustingly inclined) you could suck into your mouth and spit out as one giant mass of thick, gooey snot? Tororo has that consistency and worse.

Don't get me wrong, the consistency of natto is pretty unpleasant in its own right, but tororo really does take the crown. I'd suggest you try it for yourself, but I just like you too much for that, Roo.

[Roo]

Originally Posted by seodoa

I'd suggest you try it for yourself, but I just like you too much for that, Roo.

I think I have actually. It does sound very familiar, but it was long ago.

Compare it to drinking a raw egg. . .just slightly more foamy, right? And isn't it served on rice which cuts down on the slime factor?

[takowasakun]

The stuff I've had is (or at least seems to be) worse than raw egg. I like raw egg. And it is sometimes served on type of rice if you count donburi.

[Queen Tonya]

I think it's fairly common to hate okra, brussel sprouts, liver and things rightfully filed under "Haven't touched them since I was an adult and didn't have to." I am exceedingly grateful I don't live somewhere that natto, lutefisk or tororo are normal foods.

White meat, potatoes, green peppers, fruit and ice cream, now those things are righteously common types of food.

I've got two: onions in any way shape or form, no leeks, no scallions, no chives, although I adore garlic. And meat on a bone, or with fat, gristle, skin or basically anything that reminds me it once had a face. I can't wait for that vat-grown stuff to hit my local grocery store!

[Who_me?]

Compared to you people, I eat everything. I don't eat spinach, brussel sprouts, olives, and several other types of veggie.

[Jeff]

Originally Posted by seodoa

It's when it is in its common preparation as tororo that I hate it.

Fun fact for today: Tororo is Japanese for whale spooj.

[hakuna matata]

Originally Posted by seodoa

Natto cannot hold a candle to tororo in the slime department. Natto is stringy, yes, but it doesn't have the same phlegm like characteristic as tororo. Natto does beat it in terms of smell, though. Woof.

I have never tried natto or Tororo--but I wonder how it compares to this mexican dish for nasty. I haven't tried this one either, I can't get past the visual.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...a%3DN%26um%3D1

But then again, anything called "corn smut' can't be good for you right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_smut

[Radical Edward]

No sea food, except very very occasionally tuna and crackers. I will not touch sweetened cornbread or unsweetened tea, olives, mushrooms, red beans, coconuts, mustard, butterscotch, and any pig product except bacon. Love bacon.

[SharkB8]

Tomatoes, mushrooms, and you can add me to the chicken on a bone list....something about the veins snapping when you bite it voms me out...

I do dig wings though and if I do eat them, I eat around the veins, which in turn, voms me out.

As for tomatoes, I like some tomato-based things, like chile, salsa, ketchup/catsup, some red sauce-pastas, like lasagna, but that's it. Big fat no to spaghetti. I hate marinara. Love cocktail sauce.

A history teacher I had in high school summed up the contempt for tomatoes best when he said "Some one could spit on a tomato and you wouldn't know the difference."

[Zombies!]

Capsicum, olives and raw onion are my big 3 that I won't even touch even if I'm being mega-polite as a guest. Liver is a close fourth, but since nobody in their right mind serves it to guests we're all okay here.

What pisses me off the most, though, is when people try to sneak capsicum. As mentioned upthread, it makes EVERYTHING taste of capsicum. So if confronted with something saucy/cheesy that may potentially hide the horrible red or green stuff, I'll ask "Does it have capsicum?"

They reply "No"

I take some. BLARRRGH. "Oh, it's only a little bit. You can't even taste it"

NO. YOU CAN TASTE IT. IT'S VILE. I HATE YOU!

[troubleagain]

Oooh, I've thought of something. I cannot eat meat that has been reheated in the microwave. There's a smell or something...can't describe it, but God, it's gross. Doesn't matter how good the meat is cooked fresh, I cannot eat it reheated in the nukerator.

[Control-Z]

Another onion disliker here. I can eat them if they're hidden in something complex like vegetable soup, but I don't like them raw on burgers or subs or whatever.

[Rodak from Zortron]

Originally Posted by seodoa

Natto cannot hold a candle to tororo in the slime department. Natto is stringy, yes, but it doesn't have the same phlegm like characteristic as tororo. Natto does beat it in terms of smell, though. Woof.

Have you ever had a really huge was of phleghm that hangs down the back of your throat from your sinus cavity? The kind that if you tried hard enough (and were so disgustingly inclined) you could suck into your mouth and spit out as one giant mass of thick, gooey snot? Tororo has that consistency and worse.

Don't get me wrong, the consistency of natto is pretty unpleasant in its own right, but tororo really does take the crown. I'd suggest you try it for yourself, but I just like you too much for that, Roo.

Sounds positively delightful! I'll have a quart.

[Sinfai]

I like most food but I can't abide beetroot. I think it smells like mud.

The jelly stuff around the meat in pork pies makes me heave. Watching somebody else eat it makes me heave too.

[Bob Loblaw]

I can't abide green peppers, although I will eat red or yellow. Green peppers taste like evil.

Also raisins. Blargh. I don't know why people insist on ruining perfectly fine baked goods with the insertion of same.

[eleanorigby]

Originally Posted by TVeblen

That...looks like a bowl of phlegm.


But tororo looks like a record-setter for culinary slime.

That stuff looks absolutely disgusting. <crosses Japan off list of places to go>

And I like oysters (well, I don't gag at clams etc).

Sometimes even the mere fact that we eat at all grosses me out. Think about it: pop is brown, bubbly stuff. This is supposed to appeal? We take home stuff in boxes that doesn't resemble real food. Even natural foods can gross me out somedays: the smell of bananas, for one. The way rutabagas look for another.... That tororo stuff looks exactly like the mucoid shit that is expelled by some cancer pts I've had (seriously, it was white milky mucus from the rectum).

There is no way I'm eating that--not even if you swear it tastes like hot fudge.

<goes off, nauseated>

[SweetPea]

Under no circumstance would I ever eat tongue or liver.

Also, milk, sour cream, and cream cheese are just gross. Oh, and eggs. Yuck.

Chocolate is just nasty.

[Ferret Herder]

Originally Posted by Sinfai

I like most food but I can't abide beetroot. I think it smells like mud.

Hijack-y type story about beets/beetroot, and how I freaked out my husband with it:

I grew up eating beets only in canned form. I rather like beets, and so a few years back, I started wondering why I hadn't made any beets for my husband and I. Well, because I've minimized the amount of canned vegetables I've bought, and I hadn't prepared beets from the raw form before. So I educated myself on how to roast and skin beets (roast first in aluminum foil in the oven, let cool, rub with a paper towel to get the now-soft skin off), and did so for a nice salad. My husband liked them.

My husband freaked out the next morning, as he appeared to be urinating blood. On second look, he decided it probably wasn't the right shade. And it's not like he felt bad or anything. He asked me if beets could possibly do that and I said, "oh... I guess they might, sorry about that." Frankly, I don't check the color of the morning's urine, and men are physically constructed such that it might be harder for them to not check it.

Now, beets are yummy but still require some preparation, not to mention gloves unless you want to look like you've been up to evil deeds from the dyeing effect. So I don't make them that frequently.

I made borscht recently and joked with him that evening that I should probably put a post-it at about eye-level for him on the little cabinet above the toilet, reading "You ate beets last night." He said the next morning that he did have a little momentary "wtf?!" until he recalled my joke.

So, are there people who can eat a decent quantity of beets and not urinate reddish? By this I mean more than a slice, basically. The fact that I've never recalled noticing, even in childhood, either means that canned beets don't do this to you, that I'm a freak of nature, or that it happened each time and I just forgot about it.

Getting back on topic: My husband thought he didn't like various vegetables, like asparagus and mushrooms. Turns out his mother was just bad at cooking them.

[Zombies!]

Canned beets do make you pee red. They don't for me, but we discovered a couple of months ago that they make hubby's pee BRIGHT red. This was doubly terrifying because he's had a number of ongoing lower GI and lower abdominal complaints, which combined with the red pee had us RED ALERT ALL BATTLESTATIONS until I recalled we'd eaten beetroot the night before.

Further testing a few days later proved this correct.

[Sinfai]

I've only tasted boiled or pickled beetroot. Your description of roasted beetroot makes it sound much more palatable Ferret Herder. I imagine it tastes quite different when roasted but does it smell any less earthy?

As for turning pee red, it does seem to vary from person to person and from anecdotal sources men seem to be more affected than women. I have heard some women say it turned their pee dark blue. Never eaten more than a sliver or two myself so nothing to report here.

[Ferret Herder]

Originally Posted by Sinfai

I've only tasted boiled or pickled beetroot. Your description of roasted beetroot makes it sound much more palatable Ferret Herder. I imagine it tastes quite different when roasted but does it smell any less earthy?

Mm, good question. I don't think it smells that earthy in general, but I can see where you'd get that perception. It seems to bring out the sweetness when oven-roasted, kind of like the difference between canned sweet potatoes versus oven-baked/roasted. I think it would certainly help but I can't be sure that it'd be enough to overcome your general dislike of the beet.

Oh, I recommend using smaller ones rather than larger - the flavor is better in the small ones, and I suspect that what you don't like about the scent may be worse in the larger roots.

(Side note: I first served it in a salad - thin wedges of roasted beet/beetroot, some crumbled goat cheese, mixed greens, and add a nice vinaigrette. The natural sweetness of the roasted beet would work well compared with the more bitter greens that might show up in the salad, like arugula or radicchio.)

For instance, my husband thought he hated asparagus because it was slimy and stringy. Seems that his mom had bought too-thick asparagus so the spears were woody in texture (stringiness) and then overcooked them (slimy) to compensate. If you get nice thin spears, about the thickness of a pencil or a bit larger, and snap off the cut end, then you can lightly steam or roast them and get very good results.

[Sinfai]

I know what you mean about asparagus. Tender asparagus tips on buttered toast, delicious. If I see roasted baby beets on a menu somewhere I'll be sure to give them a go.

[mlerose]

Originally Posted by Ferret Herder

Getting back on topic: My husband thought he didn't like various vegetables, like asparagus and mushrooms. Turns out his mother was just bad at cooking them.

I had the exact same experience. I didn't like many vegetables at all until I moved out of the Ancestral Abode and realized that veggies taste good when lightly steamed, sauteed, or roasted as opposed to being steamed for so long that the green leaches into the water and the veggies taste like feet, which is how my mom prepared things like asparagus, broccoli, and green beans.

Common things I don't like: brussels sprouts, red meat (yes this includes bacon, but I love turkey bacon).

[Ferret Herder]

Originally Posted by Sinfai

I know what you mean about asparagus. Tender asparagus tips on buttered toast, delicious. If I see roasted baby beets on a menu somewhere I'll be sure to give them a go.

Hopefully I won't have steered you wrong. But I know most people's experience (at least when younger) is with big nasty beets cut up and canned or boiled or something, and not the tender little ones, so it may be worth a shot.

[Metallic Squink]

Originally Posted by CrazyCatLady

I hate celery. Hate, hate, hate. And I utterly despise cilantro, anise, and anything that looks, smells, or tastes like cilantro or anise. Gag. Don't even get me started on the taste of asparagus. Blech!

I could have written this post! I also hate celery, fish and non-organic dairy products (I don't eat them even to be polite!).

[Radical Edward]

I will add pickles of any kind, and sweet potatoes. There is nothing you can do to a sweet potato that will make me want to put it in my mouth. I won't eat nuts, except peanuts, which aren't nuts anyway so they don't count.

[threnody]

Raw celery. I can eat it cooked, but raw celery makes me sad.

[Zeener Diode]

Steak. Especially before sunrise. Gives me heartburn like you wood not believe.

[Higgs Boson]

Another tomato (in chunks) hater - love sauces etc made with it but I dislike the texture and the taste of lone tomato chunks.

Also I don't eat anything made of pig - not a religious thing, I just don't like the taste of any type of pig meat. I will eat some roast pork if I MUST, to be polite, but not ham or bacon.

[kaiwik]

Beef liver is horrid (calf's liver too) but very fresh deer liver is good. Seal liver is divine. Other offal, including the tongue, eyes and brains are not considered food in my mind. I have tried beef tongue (grandma tricked me) and it's not the taste but the soft texture that icks me out. As an adult I had a boyfriend who expressed a desire for beef tongue for supper. I bought it, boiled it, but after boiling one must peel the "skin" (taste buds) off the meat. OMG, I gagged the entire time, and I have never been near any since. (28 years) Heart is another uh-uh for me, the sight of the artery/vein holes are dis-gus-ting! No feet, either, no ears, snouts, or tails, other than ox tails.

Vegetables I used to hate were spinach and beets. The only spinach I ever had growing up came out of a can and was served with a liberal sprinkling of vinegar. *shudder* Fresh spinach, either raw, wilted in a spinach salad or lightly steamed or sauteed is wonderful. Beets, in my childhood, were either the diced, dirt tasting canned variety, or at my grandma's (she of the beef tongue trick) we weren't allowed to pick them until they were fully mature. Big, tough and tasting of dirt. I pick mine now at no larger than golf ball size, trim the leaves, (don't cut them off all the way or the beets will bleed) and lightly steam/sautee/roast, a little butter and a pinch of kosher salt, good eats.

[takowasakun]

Originally Posted by threnody

Raw celery. I can eat it cooked, but raw celery makes me sad.

threnody, my dear! Raw celery with peanut butter is a staple of my childhood! The thought of someone not able to share such a satisfying snack with me saddens me to no end!

I guess I'll just have to find something equally pleasant to do with your vegemite!

[threnody]

Originally Posted by seodoa

threnody, my dear! Raw celery with peanut butter is a staple of my childhood! The thought of someone not able to share such a satisfying snack with me saddens me to no end!

I guess I'll just have to find something equally pleasant to do with your vegemite!

Celery raw, to me, is like the most disgusting thing evah! I can see the validity of raw carrot and peanut butter, raw lettuce and peanut butter (gado gado), but celery? Bleh.

It took me about 6 weeks to be able to enjoy Nori. I love love love raw fish, but Nori? Not as good.

[Martini Enfield]

I'm well aware that I'm an extremely picky eater.

A partial list of foods that promote Communism I hate includes:

Tomato, in all forms except tomato sauce and a few salsas

Corn (as in the type that comes on cobs, in kernels, or creamed)

Mushrooms

Any part of a chicken that isn't the breast

Lamb (except in Souvlaki)

Leftovers. My wife likes them. I don't.

Packed lunches (bad memories from school, despite Mum's well-meaning efforts)

Liver/Kidneys/Other "Weird" animal parts.

Avocado in all forms

Cucumber

Gherkins in hamburgers

My wife agrees it's just easier to let me cook at our house.

[Happy Sea Slug]

I don't care for cake. I didn't like it as a kid either. My birthdays usually involved cake for everyone else, blueberry muffins for me. Now I'll eat it, but it's not really a pleasurable experience.

I hate olives. HATE THEM. Same goes for mushrooms, though meat cooked with mushrooms tastes fantastic... I just scrape off the actual 'shrooms themselves.

I also dislike ketchup and mustard, and can barely tolerate having a bottle of ketchup anywhere near my food.

Bananas are okay in and of themselves, but the moment you add them to something else they are yucky. Slather them in chocolate, throw them into a smoothie, cut them up to add to your cereal, or flavor candy with them... ick.

That's pretty much it. I enjoy most food.

[BlueBlazes]

Garlic and raw onions. They just overpower the flavor of anything you add them to.

No 'innards'. Liver, gizzards, tripe, none of that stuff that was used to process some other animal's bile.

Mollusks. Slimy when raw, not much improved fried.

There are lots of things I loved when I was younger that I no longer care for. Soda, french fries, beer, pizza, ketchup, cookies, cake... I'll eat it, but I could live without it.

My diet consists mainly of vegetables, rice and fish, with a little pork or chicken for variety, and the occasional hamburger (no onions).

And if you touch my coffee mug, you'll draw back a nub.